The voice of the Pistachio elephant is John Cena. That’s creepy enough.
In the latest incarnation, the elephant and the black guy are bestest buds and do many things together while carrying around a big duffel bag of pistachios.
Well, not the creepiest, because I haven’t seen a boner ad with the Trivago guy yet. That guy is super-skeevy, no matter how much they try to clean him up.
He reminds me of Anderson Cooper.
Just want to say that I love the Turbo Tax commercial with Kathy Bates:
KB: “My new house has these creepy kids, can I claim them as dependents?” cut to creepy looking kids in old-timey clothes and baby crawling on the ceiling
TurboTax adviser: “No, but you can deduct your moving expenses”
Ghost children do tend to be creepy.
I THINK that’s an allusion to Ms. Something-or-other’s School for Peculiar Children, the movie that came out last year. I’m not certain, though.
Miss Peregrine’s School For Peculiar Children was about a Xavier-type school, not a haunted house.
It’s probably a reference to Bates’ being a regular on American Horror Story, which has had haunted houses in multiple seasons (including two of the ones Bates was in…well, one was a hotel, but…).
Or it could just be a reference to haunted houses in general, and they just scored Bates as a coincidence.
I feel like the grandparents should have said Fuck you, you think you were bored before? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
The ones that ick me out are the toilet paper “this can’t be unseen” ads. I feel like I am smelling shit as I watch it, and it doesn’t make me want to buy their product (whatever it is).
The biggest problem with this is commercial is that it is wrong - you can only deduct moving expenses if the move is job related, not if you are only getting away from creepy ghost kids. Doesn’t give me the greatest feeling about Turbo Tax…
To think I was excited when I’d visit my grandparents and they’d break out a new box of crayons and coloring book. Geez I’m old.
StG
We didn’t have a TV at all so three black and white channels and we were entranced!
“Monopoly, Pinochle and Euchre…ALL WEEKEND!”
I think I read something about how the company realized the Trivago guy was creeping people out, so they just went with it and upped his icky factor.
The Trivago guy is the first thing that came to mind when I read “creepy commercial”. I don’t quite know what it is about him, but we had a whole thread on his skeeviness, so it’s not just me. He looks like he just got back from molesting a sheep.
When I heard that they were revamping the commercials, I assumed they were somehow going to make him less creepy. They did not.
Yeah, that’s an example of one that’s deliberately creepy.
So are the commercials for Quilted Northern, which are hilarious and I love them.
Sir Froggy
Little Miss Puffytail
Birds
Conductor Randy
I watched this parody of those the other day. I was surprised to find out that everything at the start including “aw jammit” was in the original.
It doesn’t get much creepier than Keith Hernandez in the beard dying commercial.
I didn’t spot them in a fast read but for me the epitome of creepy had to be the Burger Kings ads - especially
and the follow-up
I don’t get the ‘The Trivago Guy is creepy’ thing. What, specifically, is creepy about him?